Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 1083687)

No. But, for whatever reason, I do think they are trying to hold off on hiring for as long as they can. Maybe they are waiting for someone else to announce first. :confused:

Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 1083810)

In your opinion what do you think Parker, Anderson, and Smisek want?

Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg (Post 1083867)

NWA moved the DC9 base from ATL and actually put it in DCA for awhile. I think NWA always had mainline equipment from MEM/MSP/DTW to ATL, usually DC9s and 320s. There was a NW mx base for the DC9 in ATL I believe, which is why many rotated through here even after the pilot base went away.

Originally Posted by FmrFreightDog (Post 1083899)

For the last year or so at NWA, ATL-MEM was 3 Mesaba RJs a day. It's what drove me to DTW. This was after the old Southern hangar in ATL was dumped. To my knowledge there was never a NWA DC9 base in ATL. My old man flew the -9 at NWA from 90-97 (Eastern refugee) and commuted to DTW from ATL the whole time.

Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg (Post 1083865)

Correct. The FOs on the bus in MEM can do some damage to ATL, or any base they want to. It depends on where they want to go, and if they live in the South, they may want to make their commute as easy as possible, even though it may rival the DFW to ATL commute someday. Maybe you can drive MEM to ATL if you have to, but that wouldn't be a lot of fun.

Originally Posted by cni187 (Post 1083917)

13 from the bottom on the 88B and I'm already prepping to be MD back to NYC. I'm thinking the MEM people will mostly come to ATL and flush out all us Junior peeps.

Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 1083924)

I'm trying to decide if I'd rather sit reserve in ATL on the 88 or commute to a line on something in DTW, MSP or NYC. It looks like you need to be at least halfway up the totem pole in NYC to hold a commutable line, so that's not very attractive. Maybe I'll get a wild hair on my a$$ and MD to the 9 in DTW :D

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1083706)

If you were to look at the seniority of the 205 MEM pilots you're looking at a group who is senior in the A category and junior in the B category.

The most junior 320 A is slightly more senior then the plug on ATL 73N A and the plug on MEM DC9 A is senior to the ATL M88 A plug. Senior A's there but not necessarily "old", just senior kind of like the 7ER category.

All that to say if flying will now be covered out of ATL for MEM flying then ATL will have a place for them and hardly be noticed. ATL 88 has almost 1,000 total pilots and the 737 comes in around 500-600. Adding 60 give or take or so pilots won't make a huge difference to those two categories and even to the ATL 320 category it's not an incredible jump. So if flying increases and that flying is covered by all 3 ATL NBs then ATL can take all MEM new comers... except adding 200 people to your commute would be pure unadulterated hell. It'd be one thing if it was a reasonable drive but MEM is far from ATL.

See people will go in different directions. I know if I was forced to commute my choices in bidding would have very different priorities then what people would traditionally think.

Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy (Post 1083787)

Super and all,

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. MEM is NOT that senior. Looking at just the plug doesn't begin to tell the whole story. The most accurate (imho) is to look at the average seniority for the entire category. Here's what I found (pulled off the Dec 2011 Category List):

For the 320 Captain
ATL: 3647
SLC: 3921
MEM: 3974
MSP: 4023
DTW: 4296

For the DC9 Captain
MEM: 5929
DTW: 6028
MSP: 6623

And by way of comparison, considering where these guys are most likely to go if they elect to change airplanes:

ATL 73NA: 2797
ATL M88A: 4864